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As a Governor he has been in a position to REMOVE FAT MATT AND HAS NOT. Is that clear? I said nothing about Romney personally pouring the concrete, your boyhood friend FAILED TO ACT when he could have and a woman is dead--He will not win NH we real Conservatives understand that he is a 1 term Governor with NO other political experiance, we read the papers daily--good luck supporting someone who directly or indirectly contributed to last nights tragedy.

Rob Thompson
Concord New Hampshire
Former State Rep
State Director for Christian Coalition
Former Political Director Alan Keyes
Board of Director Granite State Tax Payers

As a Governor he has been in a position to REMOVE FAT MATT AND HAS NOT.

He can't fire him directly.
This is too funny. If you're going to throw rocks at the guy, get your facts straight. You're doiong a great job at looking like a total shill here . . .

I guess you didn't get to the second post from the Globe where it states that Mitt has been trying to fire Matt since his first days in office. The Big Dig is now and has been since it's inception, a Democrat boondogle, designed to line the pockets of corrupt Union bosses, politically connected contractors and their political allies (Democrats) in the Legislature. The board that runs MassPort is controlled by Democrats, the Legislature is run by Democrats, all of whom are Fat Matt's allies. The board must fire him, not the governor and until the governor gets people who support him on the board, he can only apply pressure on the MassPort director to resign.

Now, even if he could have fired Matt, what difference would it have made in this tragedy? None. The damage was done. The tragedy was alread set in motion by the events of 1999 and before. Firing Matt in 2003 would not have prevented this and you know it.

The fact that you don't even mention Ed King, Mike Dukakis, Bill Weld, Paul Cellucci or Jane Swift further discredits your argument. They were in a position to do something about the Big Dig but didn't. Celluccci was in charge in 1999 and there were plenty of indications then that the Big Dig was nothing but a cesspool of political patronage. I have never known MassPort to be anything but a cesspool of political patronage. (Remember 9/11?) They all had the same opportunity to do something and didn't. They were all part of the corruption that led to the death of this woman. And yet you blame Mitt, the guy who came in in the last three years of construction. It's like the Democrats blaming Bush for 9/11 when Bush had been in office for only 9 months. That was/is BS and so is your argument.